Margaret Holford

(1778-1852)

Margaret Holford of Chester was the daughter of the playwright and poet Margaret Holford (fl. 1785-1814). Holford contributed to Richard Alfred Davenport's Poetical Register, where she may have been introduced by Anna Seward. For a time a popular writer, she was a friend of Joanna Baillie and apparently Reginald Heber. In 1826 she married Septimus Hodson (1768-1833), chaplain to the Prince of Wales. Robert Southey spent a week with the Hodsons in 1829.

Elegiac ode, to the memory of Lieut.-Colonel Vassall. 1808.Wallace; or the fight of Falkirk. 1809, 1810.Poems. 1811.Margaret of Anjou; a poem in ten cantos. 1816.The past, &c. [poems]. 1819.Memoir of the Life of Lieutenant-Colonel Vassall. 1819.Warbeck of Wolfstein. 3 vols, 1820.Italian stories. Translated by Miss Holford. 1823.Lines to the memory of ... G. H. Walker. 1832?